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Harley MS 172
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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52r-71r
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NE: the 1808 Harleian Catalogue has taken the Cato text to be a series of 3 poems preceding the Cato proper as a fourth; "Followed on f. 71 [recto] by motto, ‘Soli deo honor et gloria’, written by scribe" (per DIMEV no. 1418)
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Explicit liber Catonis (per DIMEV no. 1418)
Disticha Catonis translated into English by Benedict Burgh
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English (DC)
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An old Poem beginning thus, "For whi that God ys inwardly the Wytt." [...] Another Poem beginning thus, "Perchaunce, my childe, thou settyste thi delyte." [...] A Poem written (as Mr. Stow has observed) by Tho. Hoclive, and begins thus, "Beohld, my child, yf thou lyste for to lere." [...] Liber Catonis; a Poem ascribed by Mr. Stow to John Lidgate, & begins thus, "Thate Man that lyste to Leve in Sekyrnnes." (per Harleian Catalogue) | Benedict Burgh's tranlsation of the Cato Major (per Outline Description Harley 172) | "Cato Major" (DIMEV no. 1418)
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[F]or whi þat god ys Inwardly the wytt / Of man & yevithe hym vnderstandynge… (per DIMEV no. 1418)
History
…By too & too my metre for to knytte / Nought cavsythe me but Symplenes of wytt (per DIMEV no. 1418)
Tho. Hoclive | John Lidgate | Benedict Burgh
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XV (4/4)
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1476-1500
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"The hand [...] is that of the principal scribe (A) of Add. MS. 60577 [i.e. the Winchester Anthology] [...], and belongs to the last quarter of the 15th cent., being, according to Mr M. B. Parkes, nearer to 1500 than to 1475; it is thus contemporary with the Add. MS. (item 160 dated 1487), but one cannot say which ms is earlier; [...] The manuscript is annotated by the sixteenth century antiquary, John Stow [...] It was also once owned by Henry Savile of Banke [...] and by Sir Simonds D'Ewes" (per Outline Description Harley 172)
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Outline Description Harley 172, pp. 39-40 | Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, vol. 1, pp. 60-61, no. 172 | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLHar172)
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NE: the 1808 Harleian Catalogue has taken the Cato text to be a series of 3 poems preceding the Cato proper as a fourth; "Followed on f. 71 [recto] by motto, ‘Soli deo honor et gloria’, written by scribe" (per DIMEV no. 1418)
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